[Haskell-cafe] Simple GUI Form

[Rune Harder Bak]

I'm very interested in FRP,  but all the examples I could see was
forms with "live" feedback
gui like a real-time calculator.
This is a one-time form where the user fills everything in, clicks on a button,
where after the computations might take a long time, perhaps display
some console-info.
But maybe this is a good use-case for reactive-banana as well?
Do you have any good examples in this regard?

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez <es at ertes.de> wrote:
> Hi there Rune,
>
> if you want to get started with declarative GUI programming in Haskell,
> I really recommend taking the FRP route.  Check out the
> reactive-banana-wx [1] library instead of using wxHaskell directly.  If
> you manage to get wxHaskell working on Windows, then reactive-banana
> will work as well.
>
> [1]: <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Reactive-banana>
>
>
> Greets,
> Ertugrul
>
>
> Rune Harder Bak <rune at bak.dk> wrote:
>
>> I have some input parameters
>> data Input = ...
>> that I need the user to enter in a gui pop-up. (windows people...)
>> The rest of the app is not gui (or perhaps progress could be displayed
>> in a log-window)
>>
>> What is the easiest way to make such a GUI form?
>>
>> It need to compile for both Linux and Windows, so I though WxWidgets
>> was ideal, and I got wx[1] < 0.90 to install (using wxWidgets2.8) on
>> both windows and linux.
>>
>> Now I just need to create the form, but how do you do that?
>> Any clues or links to examples? I have never used wxwidgets on any
>> platform or done any other form of GUI before for that matters.
>> (apart from some Visual Basic ten years ago, and html).
>>
>> I tried looking at wx examples, but I couldn't find this simple use
>> case explained anywhere.
>>
>> I installed wx in the first place because WxGeneric[2] seemed exactly
>> what I needed,
>> but I can't get it to compile using ghc7.4.2 from haskell-platform.
>> Anybody got that working or have some other simple method?
>>
>> Help much appreciated!
>>
>> -Rune
>>
>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wx-0.13.2.3
>> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/WxGeneric
>
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